When my family finds out that a corporate chain bakery is going to open right next to our shop, we can't help freaking out. I try to stay positive and tell my family that there's no way a soulless corporate chain's mooncakes could compare to Grandma's. But even without competition, our little bakery is struggling to make ends meet.When a gorgeous guy asks me out on a date, I think there might be some August Moon magic in the air.Then I discover that...

An unflinching portrayal of contemporary India that explores the tensions between modernity and tradition, urban and rural life, duty and free will. Madhav is a man with an engineering job that pays rather well. He also has a family that consists of a mother who doesn't understand why it is so wrong to demand dowry for her son when she paid out a generous dowry for her daughter; a father who feels so obligated to his beautiful wife for consenting...

With the Vietnam conflict as a backdrop, expatriate Louis makes his way along the dusty streets of Da Nang to meet his beloved Xuan. He has good news about a transfer to Saigon. However, Xuan has news of her own. A Matter of Finanaces is a story of love and betrayal across generations and cultures. Robert Reynolds has penned many books that present Vietnam as it was those many years ago.

A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honoring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father's business ventures and his dreams of success. A young bride, isolated on a remote island with her new husband, finds community in a group of abalone divers. Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam's Nguyen...

Crossing is a vividly human re-imagining of the love, sacrifices, and history that laid tracks for the North America of today. Leaving behind ancestral Chinese homelands and their family, brothers Yang and Lee face harrowing challenges as they join countless immigrants seeking a better life in the 1860s. This story follows their remarkable journey across the ocean to San Francisco, then into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where they'll labor...

"When Chloe Chang gets dumped via USPS after moving across the county from NYC to LA, her first instinct is to throw her box of memories in the garbage. Instead, she starts buying other teenagers' break-up boxes to create an art exhibit, Heartifacts. Opening night is going great, until she spots Daniel Kwak illicitly filming his best friend's reaction to his ex's box. When she tries to stop him, an intense discussion ends up launching a creative partnership...

I always had felt the deep desire to write about my unusual journey from Saigon to Ottawa, which occurred during the first thirty-four years of my existence. My story is a story of faith as I converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1962 in Belgium. As a witness of Vietnam history thanks to my family whose many members and friends had been part of that history I had served also the Republic of Vietnam, but my diplomatic position was cut short by...

Lotus Sync is a window into one practitioner's experience of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism via its collection of poems and is a companion book to Lotus Ink, a sonnet-rich introduction to SGI Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. The SGI is a worldwide value-creation society dedicated to using Buddhism to create world peace through individual happiness.Nichiren Daishonin is a priest in 13th century Japan who discovered the...

En este libro profundizaremos en otras siete claves que nos ayudaran en ideas sobre temáticas y estilos para escritores y en calidad de literatura para los lectores. En el primer libro de esta serie sobre los ganadores del premio Nobel de Literatura, rompimos el paradigma negativo sobre el concepto de la escritura de estos maestros. Comprobamos que tienen poemas que llegan a lo profundo de nuestra alma en un lenguaje sencillo de entender. Cómo lo...

Lucky Cat is a story about the immigrant experience, following June and her family as they start a new life in a new country, and follows June's adventures with her new friend, a lucky cat statue that comes to life!